SNN (ScrollingNetworkNews) ✿ ✿ Our Mel and Sydney returned to their nesting box with plenty of bonding occurring..but after 2.5 months of Sydney in the box from Dec 2013 to mid Feb 2014, the lack of prey gifts from Mel ( perhaps due to the severe and historic drought underway in California)and they have forgone the nesting process this year as many other raptors ✿ Compared to other owls of similar size, the Barn Owl has a much higher metabolic rate, requiring relatively more food. Pound for pound, Barn Owls consume more rodents – often regarded as pests by humans – than possibly any other creature. ✿ We remind viewers that sometimes owlets may not survive - the parents will dispose of things in "The Owl Way" -viewer discretion is advised, this is nature and the "Owl way". ✿ ~ ✿ “Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.” ― Gary Kowalski, The Souls of Animals ✿ Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius." ~ E.O. Wilson

Thursday, November 1, 2012

6 more whooping cranes now headed to Florida

HORICON, Wis. (AP) —
Six more young whooping cranes are now on their way to Florida. The cranes are part of the project conducted by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership, which is an international coalition of organizations that is reintroducing the bird in eastern North America. The birds were released Monday at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Dodge County in the company of older cranes to learn the migration route south. Biologists with the International Crane Foundation raised the birds before they arrived in Dodge County.

Five other juvenile whooping cranes are being led south by ultralight aircraft. That's being done with Operation Migration. Those cranes left Green Lake County Sept. 28 and were in Piatt County, Illinois as of Wednesday due to high winds. Follow them by reading their Official Blog/Field Journal for Operation Migration
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